dheitzmann
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I see several threads surrounding the topic of application associations not working quite right in a VM. I don't see the situation I'm having:
I have 3 VMs configured (Win2000, WinXP, Win7). I usually have Win 7 running, and the others are only there for regression testing of some software. I never run more than one at a time, due to paging/thrashing phenomena. However, applications like MS Word and Excel have versions installed in all three virtual machines.
Now, when I'm in Mac OS X and click on a .DOC file, for example, instead of opening it in the version of Word that is installed in my up-and-running Win 7 machine, Parallels instead goes and starts up Windows XP. I want to find the configuration file where Parallels associates file extensions not just with applications, but also with the correct VM. It knows that a .doc or .docx file goes with Word, but it doesn't know which version of Word to use. In my case, I would be fine if it always went to Win7; I'm not expecting it to read my mind, or even to notice which VM I have running. I just want to configure it to *always* open these MS Office apps in Win 7.
I'm running Parallels 5, build 9370. (Parallels 6 on order.) Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I've searched the various directories that I know of with Parallels things in them, and find nothing that looks like a file that might hold file type associations. Probably I don't know where to look. Or, maybe Parallels searches the various VM disk images for these associations, and what I need to do is get it to search the Win 7 disk image first. Just groping here.
Help??? Thanks.
I have 3 VMs configured (Win2000, WinXP, Win7). I usually have Win 7 running, and the others are only there for regression testing of some software. I never run more than one at a time, due to paging/thrashing phenomena. However, applications like MS Word and Excel have versions installed in all three virtual machines.
Now, when I'm in Mac OS X and click on a .DOC file, for example, instead of opening it in the version of Word that is installed in my up-and-running Win 7 machine, Parallels instead goes and starts up Windows XP. I want to find the configuration file where Parallels associates file extensions not just with applications, but also with the correct VM. It knows that a .doc or .docx file goes with Word, but it doesn't know which version of Word to use. In my case, I would be fine if it always went to Win7; I'm not expecting it to read my mind, or even to notice which VM I have running. I just want to configure it to *always* open these MS Office apps in Win 7.
I'm running Parallels 5, build 9370. (Parallels 6 on order.) Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I've searched the various directories that I know of with Parallels things in them, and find nothing that looks like a file that might hold file type associations. Probably I don't know where to look. Or, maybe Parallels searches the various VM disk images for these associations, and what I need to do is get it to search the Win 7 disk image first. Just groping here.
Help??? Thanks.